R-Controlled Vowels Phonics Worksheets

Phonics lesson 21: R-controlled vowels · Set 697 · 40 questions

How the sounds work (The r changes the vowel): Spot the vowel + r: ar, or, er, ir or ur. Read it as one sound: c-ar, f-or-k. er, ir and ur sound the same, so learn which spelling each word uses: bird, turtle, tiger.

1. 1.🫙 j_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
2. 2.🐢 t_ _tle — which two letters are missing? (a) ur (b) ar (c) or
3. 3.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) corn (b) hammer (c) bird
4. 4.🧈 Which word is this? (a) buttor (b) butter (c) buttar
5. 5.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) paper (b) circle (c) popcorn
6. 6.🟣 Which word is this? (a) purple (b) parple (c) porple
7. 7.🎪 Which word is this? (a) carcus (b) circus (c) corcus
8. 8.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) thermometer (b) torch (c) purple
9. 9.🌸 Which word is this? (a) flowar (b) flowor (c) flower
10. 10.🌽 Which word is this? (a) corn (b) carn (c) curn
11. 11.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) car (b) butter (c) purple
12. 12.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) dart (b) torch (c) bird
13. 13.Which word has the letters “ur”? (a) turkey (b) flower (c) scarf
14. 14.🧶 Which word is this? (a) yarn (b) yorn (c) yirn
15. 15.Which word has the letters “ir”? (a) burger (b) torch (c) first
16. 16.🌡️ Which word is this? (a) thormometer (b) tharmometer (c) thermometer
17. 17.🐢 Which word is this? (a) turtle (b) tartle (c) tortle
18. 18.🌽 c_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ir
19. 19.🫙 Which word is this? (a) jar (b) jir (c) jor
20. 20.🦄 unic_ _n — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
21. 21.⭕ Which word is this? (a) corcle (b) carcle (c) circle
22. 22.🐯 tig_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er
23. 23.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) flower (b) dart (c) torch
24. 24.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) turkey (b) bird (c) unicorn
25. 25.🚗 Which word is this? (a) car (b) cor (c) cir
26. 26.🐦 b_ _d — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) ir (c) or
27. 27.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) tiger (b) guitar (c) third
28. 28.🦃 Which word is this? (a) torkey (b) tarkey (c) turkey
29. 29.Which word has the letters “er”? (a) third (b) spider (c) turtle
30. 30.⭐ Which word is this? (a) ster (b) stor (c) star
31. 31.🌡️ th_ _mometer — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) er
32. 32.👧 g_ _l — which two letters are missing? (a) ir (b) or (c) ar
33. 33.🎯 d_ _t — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ur (c) ar
34. 34.🔦 Which word is this? (a) terch (b) tarch (c) torch
35. 35.🦃 t_ _key — which two letters are missing? (a) ar (b) or (c) ur
36. 36.🎸 Which word is this? (a) guitar (b) guiter (c) guitor
37. 37.🍴 Which word is this? (a) fark (b) fork (c) ferk
38. 38.Which word has the letters “or”? (a) scarf (b) girl (c) popcorn
39. 39.Which word has the letters “ar”? (a) ladder (b) turtle (c) jar
40. 40.💻 comput_ _ — which two letters are missing? (a) or (b) ar (c) er

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